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How Unpleasant Emotions Can Actually Make Your Life Better
If you’re like most humans, you resist, suppress, or distract yourself from unpleasant emotions because they can be uncomfortable, overwhelming, or even…
How to Turn Despair into Hope
When clients first come to therapy, they’ve often reached the depths of despair. Their illness has taken control of nearly everything, and they feel certain that…
Rumination: Why it Happens and How to Respond to It
Have you noticed that when something goes wrong, your mind becomes an extraordinary problem-finding, problem-solving machine?…
Are You Squashing All of Your Joy?
I hear this often from clients who are about to see a new doctor or try a new treatment option:
"I'm trying not to get too excited."
Wait, WHAAAAAT????!!!!
Stop Inviting Shame to the Party
Sometimes, when we are feeling a deep sense of loneliness, discontent, or pain, self-judgments and negative beliefs show up too. It’s like they get invited…
Acceptance - What it is and How to Get it
How often do you find yourself annoyed by someone or something? Your body? Your busy schedule? Your spouse or coworker? Your job? Your kids? Perhaps the better question is…